The Sooterkin. A sooterkin is a fabled small creature that women were believed to give birth to in the 18th century. The English physician, John Maubray, published a work entitled The Female Physician, in which he proposed that it was possible for women to give birth to sooterkins. Maubray was an advocate for maternal impression, a widely held belief that conception and pregnancy could be influenced by what the pregnant mother dreamed about or saw. https://www.etsy.com/listing/591761694











